TEHRAN, November 20 - US President Donald Trump has expressed regret for mediating the release of three American basketball players accused of shoplifting from Chinese jail, after a player’s father downplayed his role in the process.

TEHRAN, November 11 -Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, widely known for his unrestrained language and notorious anti-drugs campaign which left thousands dead, confessed that he killed a man when he was just 16 years old.

TEHRAN, November 10-The Spanish Supreme Court sentenced the Speaker of the Catalan Parliament Carme Forcadell to prison after a €150,000 (US $174,700) bail was not submitted by her lawyer in Madrid, Thursday (9 Nov. 2017).

TEHRAN, November 3 - Jailed Catalonia leader Santi Vila, among the nine Catalan leaders ordered to be held in custody on Thursday pending a potential trial over the region's independence drive, was free to leave jail after paying bail, a court document showed.

TEHRAN, September 28 - A court in Bahrain has upheld 15-year jail terms handed down to seven citizens as the Manama regime presses ahead with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.

TEHRAN, September 28 - Israel’s military has reduced the sentence of a soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a severely wounded Palestinian, a decision denounced by Palestinian leaders as a “license to kill without any accountability.”

TEHRAN, July 29, YJC -Seven Turkish journalists of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet have been released after nine months in jail as calls increase on authorities to also free four other staffers of the daily who remain behind bars on accusations of abetting terrorism.

TEHRAN, June 9, YJC - The Bahraini regime has announced that it will follow the United Arab Emirates’ suit in jailing anyone expressing sympathy for Qatar over sanctions imposed on the country by other Arab states of the Persian Gulf region.

TEHRAN, March 29, YJC -A Bahraini court has handed down a jail sentence to a leader of the banned opposition al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and death and jail sentences to other anti-regime activists.